The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization : Post-Orientalism and the Politics of Difference / edited by Maurice Jr. Labelle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Labelle, Maurice, Jr., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Said, Edward W.

Anti-racism.

Decolonization.

Orientalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Scholars from various disciplines explore how, two decades after Aimé Césaire spoke of the imperial boomerang, Edward Said's Orientalism represented the beginnings of his attempts to appropriate the boomerang's recursive nature and empower decolonial processes that would transform everyone, for the betterment of all.

Contents:

Cover

The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Boomerang Effect of Decolonization

PART ONE: Anti-Orientalism in Canada before Edward Said's Orientalism

1 Dr Howard Adams's Halfbreed Histories of Canadian Colonialism: An Indigenous Paradigm for Decolonization

2 Boomerang Epistemologies: Indian Health Services, the Sioux Lookout Project, and Colonially Entangled Knowledge

PART TWO: Edward Said's World and the Formation of His Critique of Orientalism

3 Authenticity and Renewal in Jacques Berque's Critique of Orientalism

4 Edward Said and the Politics of Race

5 Exodus or Revolution: "World Turned Inside Out" vs "World Turned Upside Down" in a 1980s Exchange

PART THREE: Post-Orientalism after Edward Said

6 Can the Subaltern of the Subaltern Speak? A Post-Orientalist Reading of Sayyid Qutb's Notion of Hierarchy

7 The Challenges and Demands of Allyship through the Public Intellectual Platform

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

9780228015437

022801543X

9780228015420

0228015421

OCLC:

1356576074